DIY Pine Cone Scented Soy Candles
photo credit to evermine
Lightly scented, clean burning, mood-enhancing, soy container candles. Everyone loves them, and they’re easy and fun to make. If you get started now you’ll have plenty of time to give these as gifts for the holidays, and of course save some for yourself!
Check out what you will need below:
- Glue dots
- Cotton candle wicks with tabs
- Water
- Medium saucepan
- Soy wax
- Candle making pitcher (or 4-cup measuring glass)
- Thermometer
- Essential oils for fragrance
- Small glass jars (I used the small wide mouth Mason jars)
- Chopsticks or wooden skewers
Stacy Dutton over at evermine.com is the author to this amazing soy candle recipe, make sure you follow the link below and get the full tutorial! Here are a few extra tips from Lil Moo:
Container tips:
- Check the dollar store for glass containers that are inexpensive, and made specifically for burning candles.
- Save your tea tins!
- Once you’ve used the contents of small aluminium cans (such as tomato paste tins), peel off the label, wash, and you have cute little silver candle tins.
- Check your local thrift shops often for old ceramic bowls, pitchers, sugar bowls, tins, metal drinking cups, small canisters…so many possibilities.
Wick tips:
- Keep them trimmed!
- The thicker the wick, the wider the container can be. Any votive will work with any wick size, but once you’ve used something wide, like a china cup, for example, your wick needs to be thicker to melt the wax all the way to the sides. So check your sizes when you go wick shopping!